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Several of McClellan's subordinates urged him to attack the Confederate division of Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder south of the Chickahominy, but he feared the vast numbers of Confederates he believed to be before him and failed to capitalize on the overwhelming superiority he actually held on that front.
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Several leading Republicans who would occupy high positions in the George W. Bush administration publicly urged President Clinton in February 1998 to recognize the Iraqi National Congress ( INC ) as the provisional government of Iraq.
Several Strathcona residents urged Rutherford to run for Oliver's old seat in the ensuing by-election.
Several of their preachers, including John Brainerd, accepted military positions and urged Presbyterians to enlist in the army.
Several advisers urged men, during the initial dates, to touch women physically in appropriate places such as elbows or shoulders as a means of increasing the sexual tension.
Several Biblical passages are urged by opponents as contradicting a doctrine of limited atonement ( all quotes from the ESV, emphasis added ):
Several days later, a Berlin newspaper reported that Hanussen had urged the German Automobile Club to persuade Prince Lobkowicz not to take part in the race, but Club officials had taken no action.
Several civic society organizations have urged the government to amend the RPA act to allow NRI's and people on the move to cast their vote through absentee ballot system.
Several FM stations relying on SCA revenue urged the FCC to adopt the GE / Zenith standard.
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Several people passed in the hall and stared as he slowly retreated, trying to close the door a little, and she slowly leaned toward him and raised her voice.
Several English scholars and churchmen are described by Bede as being fluent in Greek due to being taught by him.
Several taximen began to poke fun at him.
Several things were notable about this battle, in which Charles set the pattern for the remainder of his military career: first, he appeared where his enemies least expected him, while they were marching triumphantly home and far outnumbered him.
Several of his researchers became alienated from him and left his organization for Xerox PARC, in part due to frustration, and in part due to differing views of the future of computing.
Several highways are also named for him, including the Eisenhower Expressway ( Interstate 290 ) near Chicago and the Eisenhower Tunnel on Interstate 70 west of Denver.
Several days prior to the assassination, Minerva had appeared to him in a dream, announcing she had been disarmed by Jupiter, and would no longer be able to protect him.
Several months passed and pleas to Allan were ignored ; Allan may not have written to Poe even to make him aware of his foster mother's illness.
Several schools, faculties and universities in the Netherlands and Flanders are named after him, as is Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Several books have him placed on special assignment with the FBI.
Several clans unenthusiastically joined him.
Several candidates were presented to him including one young woman from a noble family.
Several Berlin Jewish businessmen who did business with Ribbentrop in the 1920s and knew him well later expressed astonishment at the vicious anti-Semitism Ribbentrop later displayed in the Third Reich, saying that they did not see any indications that he had held such views when they knew him.
Several parts of the book were altered during transcription, to make it appear as if Maxim Rudometkin was telling Molokans to pray through him, contrary to the bible.
Several other contemporary authors refer to Oxford as an openly acknowledged poet, and Puttenham himself quotes one of Oxford's verses elsewhere in the book, referring to him by name as the author.
Several among his cardinals who had been shut up in Nocera with him and had followed him in Genoa determined to make a stand: they determined that a Pope, who by his incapacity or blind obstinacy might be put in the charge of one of the cardinals.
Several books have been filled with anecdotes about him and with his many witty remarks.
Several ships are named after him:
Several days later, Richard's brothers joined him in seeking reconciliation with their father.
Several Egyptian emirs were thus killed, but al-Adid was told that they were killed for rebelling against him.
Several were heard defending him in personal conversations with one another.
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Several hours after the attack French President Jacques Chirac ordered the destruction of the Ivorian air force and the seizure of Yamoussoukro airport.
Several factors, such as the date, time, aircraft size, airline, eyewitness accounts, and location in New York, raised concerns that the crash was caused by another terrorist attack.
Several contemporary accounts of what happened next exist ; of particular note is that of Edward Grim, who was himself wounded in the attack.
" Several hundred soldiers, including the New Orleans Greys, agreed to participate in the attack, which commenced on December 5.
Several years before the events of the games, a demon army known as the Burning Legion intent on Azeroth's destruction corrupted a race called the Orcs, and sent them through a portal to attack Azeroth.
Several scoring systems are used to predict the severity of an attack of pancreatitis.
Several documents show LeMay advocating preemptive attack of the Soviet Union, had it become clear the Soviets were preparing to attack SAC or the US.
Several people were arrested in the aftermath of the attack, and were reported to be members of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, a large insurgent organisation.
Several helicopters are sent to wipe out the Grays ; they mainly succeed, but many of the soldiers are exposed to the byrus in the attack.
Several new proposals were made for alternate basing arrangements, including mobile basing in railway cars that would be sent out into the nation's rail network during times of heightened threat levels, and more complex systems of deeply buried silos under mesas that would include systems to quickly dig themselves out after an attack.
Several strategies exist to attack this problem.
Several highlights of Bright's tour of duty above Argama are the attack on Federation Headquarters at Jaburo and Kilimanjaro, Operation Maelstrom, and the final three-way battle between the fleet of AEUG, the Titans, and Axis Zeon near the Gryps Two space colony.
Several months into the campaign, however, his father died of a heart attack.
Several Wildcats followed the " Vals " into their attack dives, despite the intense anti-aircraft artillery fire from Enterprise and her screening warships, in a desperate attempt to disrupt their attacks.
Several weeks later, his father died of a heart attack while dancing on stage in Brockton, Massachusetts.
Several, at least seven men, take part in the mutiny and attack Larsen.
Several decades later a Turkish fleet tried to attack the city.
Several incidents followed Boulanger's death, including an armed attack carried out by a boulangiste against the Republican politician Jules Ferry, in December of the same year.
Several explanations were put forward by the Nationalists, including blaming the attack on the Republicans, that the attack on the town had been a prolonged offensive, or that the Rentería bridge, outside Guernica, was the true target.
Several times, after occupying Hami, Mansur tried to attack China in 1524 with 20, 000 men, but was beaten by Chinese forces.
Several outlying cabins were taken, but after several hours ' combat the French fell back ' without having been able to make the slightest breach ' in the fortress at the point of attack.
Several were set to music and became popular songs such as En valsmelodi, an attack on the music industry.
Several years later, the miniseries X-Men Forever revealed that a future version of Mystique had fired the shot, having sworn to kill Graydon for his part in the Friends of Humanity's brutal attack on Trevor Chase, the grandson of her lover Destiny.
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